Do you know of Turtle ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Turtle. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Turtle.<1>

We found mention of Turtle as a community (see Mentions and References below), but haven't been able to determine its location - other than being located somewhere in Gogebic County, Michigan.

Communities Also Named Turtle ...

We found four communities that share the name Turtle.

There is one other community in Michigan which is also named Turtle.

Beyond Michigan, we know of another three communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these three communities, three are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

Communities Located In Michigan ...
- Iosco County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Turtle [Iosco County].

Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
- Missouri
  - Dent County
  - Please visit our profile page for the Missouri community of Turtle [Dent County].
- North Dakota
  - Turtle #1
  - Please visit our profile page for the North Dakota community of Turtle.
- Ontario
  - Please visit our profile page for the Ontario community of Turtle.

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Turtle ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Turtle:

Along The Tracks, A Directory of Named Places on Michigan Railroads
Written by: Meints, Graydon M.
Published by Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University - 1987
(Available from Amazon.com)

Rand McNally Map of Michigan (1911)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in Gogebic County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Gogebic County.

Footnotes ...

<1>	This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.